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The first is to inform readers of news and happenings in the e-Health domain, both here in Australia and world-wide.
The second is to provide commentary on e-Health in Australia and to foster improvement where I can.
The third is to encourage discussion of the matters raised in the blog so hopefully readers can get a balanced view of what is really happening and what successes are being achieved.

Friday, May 11, 2012

A New E-Health Web Site Is On-Line So You Can Apply To Register for a PCEHR.

Seems odd a system of this investment size would allow you to register twice without alerting you to the fact?

Anyway I was tempted to participate in this PCEHR until a friend sent me a series of you tube videos from a recent PCEHR event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBNjDmloS8

Frankly if this is the level of maturity of the Security team in PCEHR then quite frankly they have a lot of work to do to convince me of joining such a scheme. The tactics although well intentioned perhaps are not what I would expect from the level of experience needed to deliver such capabilities, how the Head of PCEHR would allow this is also a little baffling, but then it usually starts at the topI would like to point out that many of the other videos were very well presented

This is not about registering for a PCEHR - it is to register your interest in signing up for a PCEHR! There is a difference. Are they going to use this to gauge how many people just might sign on the dotted line come 1 July?

477.1 Unauthorised access, modification or impairment with intent to commit a serious offence

Intention to commit a serious Commonwealth, State or Territory offence

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a) the person causes:

(i) any unauthorised access to data held in a computer; or

(ii) any unauthorised modification of data held in a computer; or

(iii) any unauthorised impairment of electronic communication to or from a computer; and

(b) the unauthorised access, modification or impairment is caused by means of a carriage service; and

(c) the person knows the access, modification or impairment is unauthorised; and

(d) the person intends to commit, or facilitate the commission of, a serious offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory (whether by that person or another person) by the access, modification or impairment.

(2) Absolute liability applies to paragraph (1)(b).

(3) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the offence was:

(a) an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

Is NEHTA now admitting that DOHA has created a target of all GP offices and networks? Are they saying NASH is such a risk to PCEHR that anyone with a simple app can now harvest information at random and the audit trail will lead directly to a GP, who will face enormous fines, probably ruin the practice and the usual social issues that go with financial ruin.Based on this I for one will not be registry and will most certainly be prescribing my GP to these facts. DOHA seem to be forcing GP's to adopt a system that will make them a target for hacking, this is wrong, why is DOHA, NEHTA, MSIA, AMA, RACGP and all these other interested parties not providing safeguards for the Clinicians and Consumers.A joke and a joke through their own admission, I trust David this will not be another minor issue to be swept under the carpet, it shows just how useful your site can be, perhaps and article explaining what these all means from DOHA would be useful